Comments on: Here kitty kitty kitty...

Here kitty kitty kitty...

nanojath — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 14:11:23 -0800

Chat Noir A little Friday Flash fun to polish off the week - couldn't be easier: the cat will try to escape off the board. Block it by clicking on circles -it can't cross the dark ones. (via del.icio.us)

By: jonson

jonson — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 14:14:00 -0800

FUCKING IMAGINARY CAT IS SMARTER THAN ME!!

By: bullitt 5

bullitt 5 — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 14:17:50 -0800

Nice. Challenging.

By: jonson

jonson — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 14:18:18 -0800

Aha! I win!! IN YOUR FACE, IMAGINARY CAT!!!!

By: nanojath

nanojath — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 14:18:48 -0800

If you "beat it" the end game is a little underwhelming, or else I'm missing something. After you box it in it just keeps hopping around, until you darken every circle but the one it's on and then... the board fades just like when the cat escapes off the side. Sorry if that, um, spoils it for anyone. Maybe there's an even more difficult object that's escaping me?

By: jonson

jonson — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 14:22:52 -0800

Sigh. Imaginary Cat: 15, jonson:1. Vous êtes l'homme supérieure, monsieur chat.

By: middleclasstool

middleclasstool — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 14:23:03 -0800

I hate this cat so much.

By: GuyZero

GuyZero — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 14:24:53 -0800

I got it once... damn cats. Probably pooped on one of the circles too.

By: GuyZero

GuyZero — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 14:27:06 -0800

Oooh... twice. My guess is that you can't win every single inital configuration. Like computer solitaire, the best way to win is just to learn to identify unwinnable games and give up on them early.

By: pointystick

pointystick — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 14:29:53 -0800

Mis-click and that's all the opportunity he needs. One false move and cat wins, just like real life.

By: empath

empath — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 14:31:42 -0800

you can't win every one -- you can win 2/3rds or 4/5ths hint, the cat will always choose the shortest path to the exit.

By: GuyZero

GuyZero — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 14:33:16 -0800

Three times. In your face jonson!

By: nola

nola — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 14:38:30 -0800

Fucking hate this game!!! Thanks for posting

By: Artw

Artw — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 14:39:40 -0800

Set the kittie free!

By: Peter H

Peter H — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 14:41:03 -0800

It's very satisfying once you finally box him in, thanks for the distraction.

By: BeerFilter

BeerFilter — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 14:42:05 -0800

I totally rock at this. Hint: If you don't click anything, the cat just sits there. PWND!

By: Ambrosia Voyeur

Ambrosia Voyeur — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 14:46:48 -0800

That's it. He's getting declawed. That'll get him to stay indoors.

By: edgeways

edgeways — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 14:51:33 -0800

there are placement of certain patterns that increase your chance of winning by a fair bit, you can lead the cat on into small dead ends, after playing 10 mins I was getting about a 50/50 win loss ratio

By: dhartung

dhartung — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 14:52:21 -0800

This is the most realistic game I have ever played.

By: twsf

twsf — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 14:53:36 -0800

DON'T WIN THREE TIMES IN A ROW! You should SEE the size of the litter tray you have to clean out to get to the next level...

By: Nelson

Nelson — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 15:01:01 -0800

This game is awfully grim. Keep closing off avenues, slowly whittling down your open opportunities until you're trapped right where you are.

By: blue_beetle

blue_beetle — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 15:01:32 -0800

The only way to win is not to play.

By: jouke

jouke — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 15:08:13 -0800

The winning strategy is to never get into close combat; start a spaced outline of your barrier well away from the position of the cat. Works almost every time.

By: booknerd

booknerd — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 15:12:49 -0800

It's so purty

By: paladin

paladin — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 15:14:59 -0800

Very nice.

By: loquacious

loquacious — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 15:23:53 -0800

HURF DURF CAT-HERDER goddamn cat. someone better program a laser pointer and a can of tuna into that game!

By: ORthey

ORthey — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 15:31:32 -0800

I totally can't has cheezburger.

By: Pope Guilty

Pope Guilty — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 15:39:44 -0800

This is delightful!

By: cacophony

cacophony — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 15:40:54 -0800

I eventually beat it, but I, too, was underwhelmed by the endgame. I sort of expected it to scratch at the darkened circles, meowing repeatedly, until I got angry and let it out.

By: dirtynumbangelboy

dirtynumbangelboy — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 15:44:20 -0800

fucking cat. DIAF.

By: Astro Zombie

Astro Zombie — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 15:44:44 -0800

Flash kitty was watching me masturbate.

By: aubilenon

aubilenon — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 15:46:07 -0800

This reminds me of Y

By: bwg

bwg — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 15:47:08 -0800

I won on my first attempt, in just a few clicks. Underwhelmed. After that it beat me over and over again. I hate cats.

By: bwg

bwg — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 15:59:16 -0800

Then I trapped in a big circle and had the pleasure of making it hop back and forth. DANCE, BASTARD, DANCE!

By: quin

quin — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 16:07:32 -0800

Tonight, I am going to go home. I am going to take my black cat and imprison him underneath an upturned laundry basket. I'm then going to scream at him "Yeah, your not so clever now escapy kitty, are you?!" Based on past experiences of doing this, he will ignore me and fall asleep.

By: boo_radley

boo_radley — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 16:15:18 -0800

Varies wildly between simplistic and infuriating. Can't... stop... playing...

By: ardgedee

ardgedee — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 16:43:12 -0800

The secret to winning: Click repeatedly, with increasing frustration, until you win by chance. Close the window, never play it again, and dismissively tell everybody else that you mastered it and it bores you now.

By: Mblue

Mblue — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 16:57:28 -0800

C L I C K T H E B O R D E R S :)

By: Joey Michaels

Joey Michaels — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 17:03:47 -0800

im not on ur twister board laffin at u

By: eyeballkid

eyeballkid — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 17:12:17 -0800

Grrr. The win animation better involve the cat a blender.

By: eyeballkid

eyeballkid — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 17:13:27 -0800

the cat a blender. Cat and a blender.... so ... angry...

By: dirtynumbangelboy

dirtynumbangelboy — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 17:14:50 -0800

BOOYA TAKE THAT YOU FLEABITTEN MOGGY

By: gummi

gummi — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 17:26:16 -0800

C L I C K T H E B O R D E R S :) That worked! Thanks! But what a boring ending. Someone code an explosion or something. Of the cat's head, of course.

By: number9dream

number9dream — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 17:34:18 -0800

hint, the cat will always choose the shortest path to the exit. Ummm... this is not unique by any means. The starting position is six steps from escaping in every direction.

By: ZachsMind

ZachsMind — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 18:28:51 -0800

Speaking as a cat-hater, I love this. =)

By: jepler

jepler — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 19:06:40 -0800

This is related to the classic 'angel problem'

By: the dief

the dief — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 19:11:41 -0800

Hey, these are the same guys who did the original Dice Wars. They rule.

By: boo_radley

boo_radley — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 19:33:57 -0800

I am a small and petty man. (img)

By: Mblue

Mblue — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 19:41:48 -0800

the dief Nice game, but it should be called Virus.

By: bwg

bwg — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 21:09:40 -0800

Cockroach Dream.

By: Quonab

Quonab — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 21:23:24 -0800

It feels a lot like Go, but sometimes it seems to set you up in an unwinnable position. If it's never unwinnable, I'd hate for it to be a cat to tell me otherwise.

By: Alvy Ampersand

Alvy Ampersand — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 21:57:24 -0800

It's very satisfying once you finally box him in, thanks for the distraction. I dunno, after I got my perimeter set up and began to fill in the space, the cat's increasingly frantic yet futile leaps from dot to dot made me feel a little sad. Then again, maybe I'd feel differently if I hadn't WON ON MY SECOND TRY, LUZERS!1!!

By: Alvy Ampersand

Alvy Ampersand — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 22:00:52 -0800

Third time, second win! Do I get bonus points if I manage to box in the cat twice in the same session? Please, you people don't know what my life is like. I'm sorry, but I need this.

By: KingoftheWhales

KingoftheWhales — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 22:47:47 -0800

Once I got him, I spent about a minute taking away his little green spots until he was just hopping about with just a few left, praying that I wouldn't take away any more of his now precious freedom. I took it. Where once he was a proud, arrogant cat, prancing around, falsely secure in his knowledge that I would never catch him. Now he is merely the quivering broken shell of the cat that once was... And finally, I can go to sleep a happy man.

By: ZachsMind

ZachsMind — Sat, 20 Oct 2007 02:09:34 -0800

I think I figured it out. I'm winning almost every game now. It took awhile but i realized if I look at the circles in boxes of four and pick one a bit ahead of him, it makes it easier to box him in.

By: 999

999 — Sat, 20 Oct 2007 03:54:23 -0800

Finally I've got the little git. I will not play that again! Thanks, that was infuriating.

By: notreally

notreally — Sat, 20 Oct 2007 09:16:41 -0800

What is the smallest (fewest) number of circles you can trap him in? Fewest dark circles to begin with and still trap him? Least number of clicks to trap him? Yes. I spent way too much time on this last night.

By: electricinca

electricinca — Sat, 20 Oct 2007 09:20:00 -0800

It's infuriating as hell even after having played it enough to get the knack of it, but boy is it addictive.

By: eustatic

eustatic — Sat, 20 Oct 2007 09:26:39 -0800

i beat it with four circles filled to start. it's good to create funnels that the cat spends moves following, until you close them off at the last second. then the cat has to spend more moves backing up, and by that time you've got yr catbox.

By: eustatic

eustatic — Sat, 20 Oct 2007 09:32:32 -0800

stay back until you get one step ahead then use the advantage to turn corners

By: mygothlaundry

mygothlaundry — Sat, 20 Oct 2007 09:48:40 -0800

It made a lot more sense when I finished reading the original post and stopped clicking on buttons that wouldn't block the cat's escape.

By: slimepuppy

slimepuppy — Sat, 20 Oct 2007 11:21:08 -0800

That cat is a cunt.

By: juv3nal

juv3nal — Sat, 20 Oct 2007 15:19:20 -0800

hmmm. I have the basic knack of it, I think, but still can't get every one. I'm batting around 80% if you don't count the ones where I made a misclick. I've done it with 5 to start. Not sure if I've been able to get one with 4.

By: Laen

Laen — Sun, 21 Oct 2007 02:21:35 -0800

Ah ha! The secrets are to click way ahead of it, and leave one block gaps for it to run towards, only to close them off right when it gets there. That is, click every other dot, then block them in as needed.

By: ZachsMind

ZachsMind — Sun, 21 Oct 2007 14:15:03 -0800

What Laen said. Figure out where it wants to go, what it's shortest route is, block around that, but let it think there's still an escape route and while it's heading somewhere you know you can block off in one click, use that time to build the walls around it.

By: mai

mai — Sun, 21 Oct 2007 21:32:34 -0800

This game reminds me of the game hex, and you can use a similar strategy of building a "bridge." You set your dots one apart from each other diagonally (if that makes any sense) so that when the cat gets to the gap you still have a chance to block it off. Once you start to see the board in terms of diagonals the game gets easier, although sometimes I still mess up and the cat gets out. I think it is possible to beat every initial configuration but I'm not sure.

By: triv

triv — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 07:49:15 -0800

He beat me once, so I chopped his balls off. He can win again, but will not sire a race of fellow cat winners. Humans 1 - Cats - 0

By: deborah

deborah — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 23:26:26 -0800

Won on my third try - yay me!